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A biologist queries whether AI 'borrowed' his work to make major discovery—an expert explains the rules

AI company Anthropic recently announced that its popular system Claude had identified an unusual family of biological molecules. These molecules were enzymes, a type of protein that speeds up chemical reactions in living organisms.

A biologist queries whether AI 'borrowed' his work to make major discovery—an expert explains the rules
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AI company Anthropic recently announced that its popular system Claude had identified an unusual family of biological molecules. These molecules were enzymes, a type of protein that speeds up chemical reactions in living organisms.

Originally published at Phys.org

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